2 categories · RankedProxmox VE
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server virtualization platforms | Cloud and infrastructure | 42% | 1 of 78 | 4% | 70 | endorsed leader | |
| Virtual desktops | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 42 of 81 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Azure Virtual Desktop at 22% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Proxmox VE across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“It has emerged as the go-to alternative for SMBs and homelabs due to its lack of licensing fees, built-in backup solutions, and robust clustering capabilities.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Server virtualization · negative prompt · first choice
“For most small to mid-sized businesses with limited budgets, Proxmox VE or Microsoft Hyper-V (if Windows-focused) are popular choices” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Server virtualization · budget prompt · first choice
“Best Overall for Tight Budgets ... It is the most popular, active, and cost-effective VMware alternative for general IT needs.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Server virtualization · budget prompt · first choice
“Proxmox VE has emerged as the most popular migration target for mid-market businesses looking to escape vendor lock-in.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Server virtualization · paraphrase prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Proxmox offers paid support and a stable enterprise repository; make sure you’ve decided whether you need those before relying on it in production.” GPT-6 Luna · Server virtualization · negative prompt · soft negative
“demands strong internal expertise for production environments. Its lack of enterprise-grade support can be a risk” Mistral Small · Server virtualization · negative prompt · soft negative
“"Cautious if you need enterprise-grade polish"” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Server virtualization · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Proxmox VE, over the 203 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Proxmox VE was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 179 of the 203 answers that named Proxmox VE and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
405 of the 455 domain citations in answers naming Proxmox VE came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Proxmox VE stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 4,400 a month (“proxmox ve”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 179 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 120,786 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 10,528 · 2,056 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 16,418
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- Named in
- 203 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 179 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 96 | undated | |||
| Blog | 74 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 58 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page proxmox.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Proxmox VE
Follow Proxmox VE
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
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The company
Proxmox VE is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- a complete open-source platform for enterprise virtualization
- For
- professional IT environments
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Proxmox VE's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: proxmox.com, proxmox.com/en/products/proxmox-mail-gateway/pricing. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Proxmox VE's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Proxmox VE, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Proxmox VE by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Proxmox VE is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Proxmox VE, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Proxmox VE is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
AI models recommend Proxmox VE first in Server virtualization platforms this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.